Admin¶
If your application does not otherwise require a custom Form class then you can create the form directly in your admin using make_ajax_form
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ajax_select.helpers.
make_ajax_form
(model, fieldlist, superclass=<class 'django.forms.models.ModelForm'>, show_help_text=False, **kwargs) Creates a ModelForm subclass with AutoComplete fields.
Parameters: - model (type) – Model class for which you are making the ModelForm
- fieldlist (dict) – {field_name -> channel_name, …}
- superclass (type) – optional ModelForm superclass
- show_help_text (bool) – suppress or show the widget help text
Returns: a ModelForm suitable for use in an Admin
Return type: ModelForm
Usage:
from django.contrib import admin from ajax_select import make_ajax_form from yourapp.models import YourModel @admin.register(YourModel) class YourModelAdmin(Admin): form = make_ajax_form(YourModel, { 'contacts': 'contact', # ManyToManyField 'author':'contact' # ForeignKeyField })
Where ‘contacts’ is a ManyToManyField specifying to use the lookup channel ‘contact’ and ‘author’ is a ForeignKeyField specifying here to also use the same lookup channel ‘contact’